Gmisc (version 3.0.3)

pathJoin: A path join function

Description

This function joins strings into a valid path. It is a simple version of python's os.path.join and fixes simple problems such as having/not having trailing / in each section.

Usage

pathJoin(...)

Value

string A string with the merged path

Arguments

...

A set of strings to join. Each may be a single string or a vector. If you provide vectors they can either be all of the same length or where there are two lengths where one is equal to 1.

Examples

pathJoin("my_base_path/helpers", "superfunction.R")
# 'my_base_path/helpers/superfunction.R'

base_dir <- "/home/tester/images"
out <- data.frame(filename = c("file1.png", "file2.png", "file3.png")) |>
  dplyr::mutate(full_path = pathJoin(base_dir, filename))